Bus carrying Polish vacationers overturns, killing 12 folks and injuring 10 others on the M3 motorway close to Mezokeresztes.
Printed On 16 Aug 2026
A bus crash in jap Hungary has killed 12 folks and critically injured 10, police say.
The bus carrying Polish vacationers overturned on Sunday on the M3 motorway close to the city of Mezokeresztes, 140km (87 miles) east of Hungary’s capital, Budapest.
The bus, travelling from Serbia to Poland, was carrying 57 passengers and two drivers when it drove right into a ditch and overturned, police mentioned.
Eleven folks had been declared lifeless on the scene, and one other individual died in hospital, the nationwide catastrophe administration company mentioned. The ambulance service mentioned 37 folks suffered minor accidents.
The hearth brigade and different rescue employees needed to drag some folks out by way of the home windows as a result of they had been trapped within the bus.
“A Polish-registered bus travelling on the M3 motorway in the direction of Nyiregyhaza … veered off the straight stretch of street right into a ditch and overturned. Preliminary info suggests the driving force seemingly fell asleep,” police mentioned on their web site. They mentioned the bus driver was taken into custody.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar provided his condolences to the households of the victims and thanked rescue employees who had been dispatched to the scene.
Polish International Minister Radoslaw Sikorski mentioned on X: “The consular service is operational. We’re in touch with the Hungarian authorities. The Ministry of International Affairs will present verified info.”
Polish President Karol Nawrocki mentioned: “It’s with deep sorrow that I obtained the tragic information of the Polish bus accident in Hungary, wherein so a lot of our compatriots died.”
It’s the deadliest street accident in Hungary since 2003 when a practice hit a German vacationer bus at Siofok, killing 33 folks.
